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Y'all remember how well Mozilla getting taken over by activists went? Witch hunt firings followed by years of failed product launches and loss of market share while leadership basically just checks out and collects their salary?



Do you mean since 2007, when Mitchell Baker wrote the Mozilla Manifesto?

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/details/


> Witch hunt firings

Translation from conspiracy speak: there was one resignation


Yup. My first thought was “why does a messaging app need a board of directors?”. I guess I just don’t understand tech.


Nonprofits need boards of directors by law, and a free, open-source app needs a nonprofit to back it, because the alternatives are probably a for-profit or abandonment.




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